2018 USATT Hall of Fame Inductees

April 16, 2018 (Portland, OR) - The U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame Board of Directors is pleased to announce the names of those outstanding players and contributors to be honored with induction at this year's annual banquet.

The U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame Annual Induction Banquet 2018 will be held Thursday evening, July 5th during this year's U.S. National Championships at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Tickets are available through US Table Tennis Hall of Fame. Please contact Sean O’Neill at olympic88@me.com for tickets.

Olympic Games- 2008- 5th place (USA the best ever) in team Events and quarterfinals in Women’s Singles

2015- Pan Am Games- Gold medals in Women’s Team and Women’s Singles

World Championships- 2003, 2005 and 2007 Quarterfinals in Women’s Singles

Numerous medals in North American Championships and International competitions

Larry Hodges - Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award

This year's recipient of the annual Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Larry Hodges. He has done just about everything in the sport, despite starting at the late age of 16 way back in 1976. However, it was as a writer, a coach, and a table tennis entrepreneur that he truly made his name. Rather than a long narrative, a simple bullet point list will suffice to show his credentials. (Previous recipients are on the Hall of Fame Profiles page, at bottom.)

Professional coach at Maryland Table Tennis Center since 1992 with about 30,000 coaching hours. He's been late for a session exactly two times.

Promoter, Director, and Official

Pioneered the idea of full-time table tennis training centers by opening the Maryland Table Tennis Center in 1992 (with Cheng Yinghua and Jack Huang), the first successful full-time table tennis center in the country. The model has been copied all over the U.S.

Instigated & created (with Robert Mayer) the USATT League Rating System, now used in clubs all over the U.S., processing more matches than the USATT tournament rating system.

Created the Club Catalyst and Creation Program, which in 1990-1991 increased the number of USATT clubs from 226 to 301, and membership from 5500 to over 7000.

Arranged over 100 TV showings on CNN, Headline News, ESPN, Nightline, and on local stations, and many hundreds of newspaper articles.

Director of over 200 USATT sanctioned tournaments, nearly all of them two days long. That's over 400 days just running tournaments.

USATT certified umpire

Wrote the original draft to cancel the infamous Paddle Point Rule.

Player

Reached #18 in the country, won Open Singles at 18 tournaments, and was National Collegiate Doubles and 2-time Team Champion. Though he normally uses sponge, at the U.S. Open and Nationals he was 2-time Hardbat Singles Champion, 5-time Hardbat Over 40 Champion, and 14-time Hardbat Doubles Champion.

Has played or coached at 42 consecutive North American/U.S. Open Teams (1976 to present), 34 consecutive U.S. Opens, and 34 consecutive U.S. Nationals.